here’s an excerpt from an article about how bush explained the justification for going to war in iraq. nothing like bible-thumpers going wit their gut:

Incredibly, President George W. Bush told French President Jacques Chirac in early 2003 that Iraq must be invaded to thwart Gog and Magog, the Bible’s satanic agents of the Apocalypse.

Honest. This isn’t a joke. The president of the United States, in a top-secret phone call to a major European ally, asked for French troops to join American soldiers in attacking Iraq as a mission from God.

Now out of office, Chirac recounts that the American leader appealed to their “common faith” (Christianity) and told him: “Gog and Magog are at work in the Middle East…. The biblical prophecies are being fulfilled…. This confrontation is willed by God, who wants to use this conflict to erase his people’s enemies before a New Age begins.”

based on the fact that the gov’t is printing TONs of money + the fact that the world economy hit bottom this fall, I am throwing my hat into the commodities speculation game. Bought a few lots of USO, or the fund that tracks the price of OIL.

Since the world oil market does ALL its trading in US Dollars….the more US dollars there are in the world……the more expensive oil becomes….lets see what happens 12 months from now…Oil could be $150 a barrel again easily…